"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."

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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

"Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind."

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"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."

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